[pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)
Neil Herber (nospam)
nospam at eton.ca
Mon Mar 26 07:24:02 CDT 2007
On 2007-03-26 Kathryn Andersen is rumoured to have said:
> For example, there's a world of difference between
>
> mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
> imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/openwin/lib/X11/config -DHasGcc2=YES
>
> and
>
> mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak imake -DUseInstalled
> -I/usr/openwin/lib/X11/config -DHasGcc2=YES
>
> The second one is garbled, but that's what would happen if the
> whitespace preformatted rule were to suddenly vanish.
>
> Especially in the case of the sequence of commands, they need to be
> exact, so that it can be helpful to cut-and-paste the commands to make
> things easier.
>
I am sure this dead horse does not need any more flogging, but ...
It looks to me that the example above is a case of conflating two
features: preformmated text and honoring linebreaks.
I have found that my users are often surprised by the effect of a
leading space, but once they undestand it, they use it to honor
linebreaks rather than to produce monospaced text. Some are annoyed that
the font changes.
--
Neil Herber
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